Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American IndiansBlack, Young, and Young, 1824 - 371 páginas |
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... ground . His companions now bemoaned his fate , he falls into a sound sleep , and they think he has ex- pired . He wakes again , jumps up and declares , that he has enjoyed the most delicious sensations , and that he never before felt ...
... ground . His companions now bemoaned his fate , he falls into a sound sleep , and they think he has ex- pired . He wakes again , jumps up and declares , that he has enjoyed the most delicious sensations , and that he never before felt ...
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... ground , and put the stockings on their legs . Here , they say , a general laughter en- sued among the Indians , that they had remained ignorant of the use of such valuable implements , and had borne the weight of such heavy metal ...
... ground , and put the stockings on their legs . Here , they say , a general laughter en- sued among the Indians , that they had remained ignorant of the use of such valuable implements , and had borne the weight of such heavy metal ...
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... ground . The Indians were sur- prised at the superior wit of the whites * , but did not wish to contend with them about a little land , as they had still enough themselves . The white and red men lived contentedly together for a long ...
... ground . The Indians were sur- prised at the superior wit of the whites * , but did not wish to contend with them about a little land , as they had still enough themselves . The white and red men lived contentedly together for a long ...
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... ground , recapi- tulating the most extraordinary events which had before happened , and concluding in these words : " I admit there are good white men , but they " bear no proportion to the bad ; the bad must be " the strongest , for ...
... ground , recapi- tulating the most extraordinary events which had before happened , and concluding in these words : " I admit there are good white men , but they " bear no proportion to the bad ; the bad must be " the strongest , for ...
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... ground , to satisfy the avarice of the white men . We , ourselves , are threatened with a great evil ; nothing will pacify them but the destruction of all the red men . * Hunter's Memoirs , p . 48 . " Brothers , When the white men first ...
... ground , to satisfy the avarice of the white men . We , ourselves , are threatened with a great evil ; nothing will pacify them but the destruction of all the red men . * Hunter's Memoirs , p . 48 . " Brothers , When the white men first ...
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Albany American Indians appear Balaam believe belt of wampum brethren brother called character Charlevoix chief Christian civilized Corlear corn council David Zeisberger Delaware desire dollars endeavours enemies English father fire Five Nations forms Fort Schlosser Fort Stanwix French friendship gave give given Governor Grammar hand Heckewelder honour hope hunting idioms Indian languages inhabited Iroquois killed king labour Lake Lake Erie Lake Ontario land Lenni Lenape live manitto manner Matonabbee means ment mind Missionaries Mithridates murder never Niagara North observed Oneydoes peace Pennsylvania person polysynthetic present priests prisoners received religion reside river Sachem sacrifice savage Seneca Nation sent Shawanese shew Six Nations skins speak speech Spirit Stanwix Theodore Schultz thing tion told treaty tribes United verbs Virginia wampum warriors whole Wingen wish women words worship yo-ha York young
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Página 253 - And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Página 317 - They care for little, because they want but little, and the reason is, a little contents them. In this they are sufficiently revenged on us ; if they are ignorant of our pleasures, they are also free from our pains.
Página 255 - Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought...
Página 256 - And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
Página 254 - Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, " My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Página 113 - Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, and rend the knotted oak : and, therefore, will we try the effect of it upon his senses.
Página 318 - ... of body, that he will even sweat to a foam. The other part is their cantico, performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts; two being in the middle that begin; and, by singing and drumming on a board, direct the chorus. Their postures in the dance are very antick and differing, but all keep measure. This is done with equal earnestness and labor, but great appearance of joy.
Página 312 - Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the South, 'and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
Página 268 - That the American languages in general, are rich in words and in grammatical forms, and that in their complicated construction, the greatest order, method and regularity prevail. 2. « That these complicated forms, which I call poly synthetic, appear to exist in all those languages, from Greenland to Cape Horn.
Página 52 - I was at his house, but when I started to return home, he gave me no provision to eat on the way. He gave me neither kettle nor gun; neither did he tell me that the United States were about to rebel against the government of England.